We won't go into the future of alternative, ecologically sound, sources of energy - let China and Europe do that. We'll go back into the past of finite coal energy where coal mining communities live in poverty and death while the earth is raped and scarred for no good reason, the air is polluted, and a few coal barons get rich. Great plan.
This looks like a lawsuit to watch closely.In this case, the ACLU’s attorneys argue that federal officers worked closely with the county sheriff and city police officers to terrorize families at the racetrack raid, and were therefore part of a conspiracy.
The conspiracy argument has succeeded before—most prominently, after federal officers conspired with state officers to murder Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Chicago in 1969. It also was used to sue over an immigration raid in Tennessee during Trump’s first term. But ACLU attorney Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, who is working on the Idaho case, told me she hasn’t seen it tried during Trump’s second term, and that the outcome of the case could have implications far beyond this small Idaho town: All across the country, the Trump administration is collaborating closely with state and local police to carry out its mass-deportation agenda.
Mother Jones
From the AP:
UPDATE 09:03 am: From an El Paso City Council Representative...
UPDATE 09:19 am: Speaking of lack of communication...
Go straight to extortion. No one's going to stop him.
No doubt there's some sort of national security emergency he can claim.Amid a trade war and a deepening rift between the United States and its northern neighbor, Mr. Trump said that he would “not allow” the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, scheduled to open early this year for traffic between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, “until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.”
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It was not immediately clear how Mr. Trump would block the opening of the bridge. Its construction was paid for by Canada, and a public-private arrangement , under which Canada and Michigan would jointly operate the crossing, gives Michigan part ownership.
NYT
Oh. I see.Trump also suggested in his social media post on Monday that the United States might seek to acquire “at least one half” of the new bridge and to get a cut of the revenue from bridge tolls.
In his first term, Mr. Trump had promoted the project in a joint statement with Canadian officials as a symbol of the countries’ deep economic partnership and as “a vital economic link between our two countries.”
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The nearby Ambassador Bridge, one of the busiest border crossings on the continent, has been privately owned for decades by a Detroit trucking industry billionaire and his family, the Morouns. The family had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of the Gordie Howe bridge — which would, once opened, compete for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade over the Ambassador Bridge.
I missed it if there was a fucking congressional investigation into Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl.
